Forty-year-old Bhagya lost her father Thutukuri Malla Reddy to suicide in June 2022. The 70-year-old farmer was in distress after the Telangana government denied him a two-BHK house, a promise made to those evicted for the Mallanna Sagar reservoir project in Telangana’s Siddipet district.
While many families have been relocated to the Rehabilitation and Resettlement colony in Siddipet district’s Gajwel, what made Malla Reddy and others like him ineligible was the fact that they were widows or widowers – at the root of their suffering was the Bharat Rashtra Samithi-led state government’s order 120.
